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Connecting Your Learning

Competencies Addressed in This Assignment

In this assignment, the criteria in your Connecting Your Learning Scoring Guide are directly aligned to competencies 1–5 for the course.

  • Competency 1: Differentiate research methods used by criminal justice agencies.
  • Competency 2: Articulate a problem statement appropriate for examination using criminal justice research methods.
  • Competency 3: Contrast the research methods used by criminal justice agencies and scholar-practitioners.
  • Competency 4: Use a common research method of criminal justice practitioners to examine the problem statement.
  • Competency 5: Differentiate between reputable and nonreputable criminal justice research resources.

Assignment Description

Throughout the class, you have examined research methods, from probability sampling to survey research. You have assessed the challenges associated with research design, ethical research practices, data collection methods, and analyzing content and reporting research results. You have also evaluated the validity of research measures and reputability of resources available for criminal justice research.

Prepare a 5–7 page paper (1–1.5 pages per competency for competencies 1–5), focused on the course competencies and address two key areas of learning for each competency. This paper should showcase your learning proficiency and describe the importance of your learning relative to application in a career context.

Be sure to review the Connecting Your Learning Scoring Guide to ensure that you understand the criteria for this assignment.

Requirements

  • Written communication: Must be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
  • Resources and citations: Format according to APA guidelines.
  • Required page count: 5–7, not including the title page or the references page.
  • Required number of references: One reference per competency for competencies 1–5.
  • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

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Differentiate research methods used by criminal justice agencies
The strategies utilized in criminological and criminal justice inquire similar to those in
the behavioral and sociologies in general. A basic assumption underlying the utilization of these
methodology includes the confidence in a goal reality, or a world that diverse individuals see
comparatively. Identified with this presumption is that such a reality can be considered unbiased.
The viewpoint that individual and social procedures can be examined impartially or
experimentally is seen to as positivism.
The snippets of information that are accumulated and inspected over the span of research
are alluded to as information, which might be either qualitative or quantitative in form. The two
methods of information may be collected by obtaining observations of the case under
investigation, and quantitative data may likewise be arranged through survey research or a
survey of authentic information. Qualitative observations are recorded by scientists as verbal
articulations that depict specific procedures and results, while quantitative observations comprise
of pieces of information recorded in numerical form. These two techniques are valuable for
theory advancement and testing, despite the fact that a heavier accentuation in criminology and
criminal justice seems, by all accounts, to be set on qualitative research for theory improvement
as compared to quantitative research for theory or hypothesis testing and program assessment.
Numerous investigators utilize both methodologies in a solitary report
The growing fame of quantitative research has been met with protection concerning some
qualitative specialists. A few people trust that the powerlessness to numerically quantify and
assess many key ideas and procedures that are basic to the field will create misleading
information concerning the legitimacy of these thoughts. This issue is misrepresented when a

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specialist does not completely understand the theoretical ideas, the systems, and limitations of
convoluted statistical methods to obtain data. The recent condition of graduate training in
criminology and criminal justice undertakings that enhances concerns over learning challenges,
because these projects are frequently drained of courses in theory of construction, and they offer
an extremely restricted number of courses in research methodologies.
Articulate a problem statement appropriate for examination using criminal justice research
methods
Quantitative methods give the essential research methods to concentrate the dispersion
and reasons for wrongdoing. Quantita...


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